Sugar free dinner desserts

[diberry]

Does anyone know please if they offer a no sugar added dessert for dinner at 1900 Park Fare, Chef Mickey, Ohana and TRex, even if it's not on the official menu? I found them at all the other restaurants where we've got ADRs but not those 4.

Also, and this sounds like a silly question, but is there a difference between "no sugar added" and "sugar free"?

Many thanks!

 

[pumba]

Some resorts and "some" restaurants have sugar free puddings or sugar free jello.....I always try to leave some room and also some carbs so I can enjoy a good dessert at TS restaurants...I like to eat fresh fruit at breakfast and if we go to a buffet for dinner...
sugar free is that......NONE at all........no sugar added means just that......it may have natural sugars in it, but no more were added

 

[diberry]

Just got back and am happy to report that I was able to get sugar free or no added sugar desserts everywhere in WDW. Some were to die for, especially the ones at the Wave in the Contemporary Resort and this at Ohana in the Polynesian.

The Captain's Grille at the Yacht Club do a wonderful chocolate gelato. I also found a scrumptious chocolate and vanilla ice cream at Ghirardelli's at Downtown. What a treat to find so many delicious sugar free offerings. The Brownies can be found most places and there were lots of fruit sorbets about too. The only thing I wasn't so keen on was the vanilla cheesecake which I had in 3 places and found it bland and tasteless but everything else was wonderful!! Good old WDW!!!

 

[njb1148]

Diberry, thanks very much for the info and picture of the wonderful looking dessert. I am also looking for no sugar added or sugar free desserts in WDW. Question: did you ask the server when you sat down to eat what they had or did you request it with your ADRs or beforehand?

 

[zscfan]

I think that sugar-free desserts are just that: they contain no sugar at all. BUT, no sugar added do contain some natural sugars (like NSA apple pie, the apples must contain some naturally occuring sugar). But, no additional sugar was used in the making of the pie. I imagine that many fruits have some sugar already in them.

Hope this helps!!

 

[PictureJumpr]

Also, and this sounds like a silly question, but is there a difference between "no sugar added" and "sugar free"?

Not a silly question at all, depending on why you are interested in NSA or sugar-free desserts.

NSA (No sugar added) products can, and often do, contain things like honey, maltose, dextrose, fructose, or other things which are processed in the body much like sucrose (table sugar). The apple pie example earlier is a good one - there is definitely 'natural' sugar (fructose) in the apples in that pie, even if the baker did not add granulated sugar to the recipe. It is even legal (but not nice) for a food containing turbinado to be labeled 'NSA' - turbinado being more commonly known as 'raw' sugar and being processed in the body exactly like its granulated white sister. I haven't seen this happen yet in anything I've come across at WDW, but it is still feasible. They do have many NSA things that contain fruit or have crusts which will process in the body like sugar.

Sugar-free items are generally sweetened with artificial sweeteners like sucralose (Splenda), aspartame (Equal/Nutrasweet), or saccharine (Sweet-n-Low) and will often have little or no effect on blood sugar since these things are not processed like sugar in the body.

HTH

 

[diberry]

Diberry, thanks very much for the info and picture of the wonderful looking dessert. I am also looking for no sugar added or sugar free desserts in WDW. Question: did you ask the server when you sat down to eat what they had or did you request it with your ADRs or beforehand?

I asked for a sugar free dessert when I ordered my dessert at table service restaurants or, at buffets, when I went to get a dessert. It was never a problem and, even if it wasn't on show, they always brought me one - you just have to ask. I forgot to say that they do a very nice fruit sorbet at the Crystal Palace also and Boma's sugar free dessert was huge!! I was very impressed everywhere I went within WDW (not at Seaworld or Universal though, sadly).

 

[diberry]

I think that sugar-free desserts are just that: they contain no sugar at all. BUT, no sugar added do contain some natural sugars (like NSA apple pie, the apples must contain some naturally occuring sugar). But, no additional sugar was used in the making of the pie. I imagine that many fruits have some sugar already in them.

Hope this helps!!

Not a silly question at all, depending on why you are interested in NSA or sugar-free desserts.

NSA (No sugar added) products can, and often do, contain things like honey, maltose, dextrose, fructose, or other things which are processed in the body much like sucrose (table sugar). The apple pie example earlier is a good one - there is definitely 'natural' sugar (fructose) in the apples in that pie, even if the baker did not add granulated sugar to the recipe. It is even legal (but not nice) for a food containing turbinado to be labeled 'NSA' - turbinado being more commonly known as 'raw' sugar and being processed in the body exactly like its granulated white sister. I haven't seen this happen yet in anything I've come across at WDW, but it is still feasible. They do have many NSA things that contain fruit or have crusts which will process in the body like sugar.

Sugar-free items are generally sweetened with artificial sweeteners like sucralose (Splenda), aspartame (Equal/Nutrasweet), or saccharine (Sweet-n-Low) and will often have little or no effect on blood sugar since these things are not processed like sugar in the body.

HTH

I didn't realise that NSA can include things that I would consider to be sugar such as dextrose and honey which generally upset my stomach. But nothing I ate at WDW upset me, I'm very happy to say! At home I always stick to fruit but I decided to "treat" myself while at WDW and it was all ok. Thank you both.